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RAIL SERVS. OF AM. v. STATE COMPENSATION INS. FUND

Insurance Law, Workers' Compensation, Sanctions
In an action for alleged misconduct related to premiums defendant charged plaintiff for workers' compensation insurance, because plaintiff willfully...

PATTERSON v. MOBIL OIL CORP.

Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
A judge's failure to recuse himself was not an abuse of discretion and amounted to harmless error. RICO claims that defendant fraudulently represented...

WINGFOOT ENTERS. v. ALVARADO

Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
An employee can have more than one employer for purposes of the Workers' Compensation Act and its exclusive remedy provision.

LUND v. SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY R.R.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation, Workers' Compensation
The trial court in FELA cases should not tell the jury that the injured employee is not entitled to benefits under California's workers' compensation...

SIMI CORP. v. GARAMENDI

Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In an action to vacate the Insurance Commissioner's decision interpreting certain regulations governing the reporting status of workers' compensation...

STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEP'T OF REHABILITATION v. WORKERS? COMP. APPEALS BD.

Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
When an employee who has suffered an industrial injury returns to work following a determination the injury has become permanent and stationary, the...

CANTON POULTRY & DELI, INC. v. STOCKWELL, HARRIS, WIDOM & WOOLVERTON

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Legal Malpractice, Workers' Compensation
When plaintiff was dismissed from a workers' compensation case by operation of law, whatever duties defendant, who had represented plaintiff in the...

MAHER TERMINALS, INC. v. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMP.

Admiralty, Workers' Compensation
Defendant is a covered maritime employee under the Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C. section 901 et seq., because although he...

GAYTAN v. WORKERS' COMP. APPEALS BD.

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
The WCAB's denial of plaintiff's disability is annulled and remanded where the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) should have...

ORTCO CONTRACTORS, INC v. CHARPENTIER

Administrative Law, Admiralty, Government Benefits, Workers' Compensation
The Benefits Review Board used an improper evidentiary standard in reviewing an ALJ's initial determination, which had correctly found that a presumed...